Newbie question on Re module

[Peter Hansen]

Tom Zych wrote:
> 
> Andrew McGregor wrote:
> > if str.index('binaries') == -1:
> >   # then str did not contain the word.
> 
> Python 2.2 doesn't return -1 when string.index fails; it raises
> a ValueError exception. Are there older versions of Python that
> return -1?

He posted untested code.  He meant "str.find('binaries') == -1".
.index() has probably always returned ValueError.

-Peter